At the Edge: Think Culture
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Award-winning show bringing knowledge to the digital community! At the Edge discusses ideas, crossing cultural boundaries to expand ideas about art, writing, knowledge, publishing, and production, while contending with challenges about access, virtual space, political context/challenges, and incursion of cyber cultures. http://afrofuturismscholar.com
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best At the Edge: Think Culture episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to At the Edge: Think Culture for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite At the Edge: Think Culture episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Dr. Nelda Ormond, UDC Music Dept: The Spiritual
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03/20/21 • 56 min
It was from, and because of the hard living conditions of slavery, the spiritual was born. The spiritual was the creation of the American slaves brought from Africa. Spirituals expressed the history, treatment, and thoughts of Black people in the United States. The combined experiences of Africa and America served to produce the spirituals. They served the propose of religious expression to communication, often by code. They possessed a folk literature that was varied and rich. They had their native musical endowment to begin with, and the Spirituals possessed the fundamental characteristics of African Music, rhythmic qualities, form and intervallic structure.
Arts and Sciences Education Now: Context for responsible revolution
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03/15/21 • 77 min
Dr. April Massey, Ph.D.–my Dean at UDC is coming on again and we are going to talk about building bridges across disciplines, across humanities and STEM, gender, race, and more. Please join us–she is doing what many wish they could do in higher ed!!!!!
Congo Square: Afrofuturism as a Space of Confrontation
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02/27/21 • 39 min
In Professor Jameel Paulin's 2020 MFA project "Congo Square", an audio-visual album produced and developed for virtual reality, Paulin situates Afrofuturism and hip-hop within the long history of Afrocentric aesthetic and spiritual practices; examining vodun and Congo Square as moments where African ancestors transformed the way that their descendants could exist in and re-shape the modern world by maintaining African centered worldviews. Jameel Paulin is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Colorado College.
Opening Your Fourth Eye: Libraries, Digital Humanities, and Diversity
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10/29/20 • 59 min
The importance of information literacy and the role of libraries in diversity and social justice in higher education. Meghan Kowalski is the Outreach and Reference Librarian at the University of the District of Columbia. Previously, she worked in both public and technical services at the Catholic University of America’s John K. Mullen of Denver Memorial Library. She is interested in engaging communities through online and offline outreach initiatives. One of her other current focuses is to increase library professional skill development by breaking down traditional silos, learning from other industries, and encouraging personal career management. You can learn more about her experiences and see some of her work on her website meghankowalski.com.
Pathways to Equity in Higher Education: Humanities and More #equalfundingudc
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10/18/19 • 65 min
Words like equity and humanities, as well as phrases like "pathways for a better life" are skeletons of concepts we will unpack and discuss as part of a larger conversation about changes coming to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) that will help faculty, students and administrative leaders bring fairness and success to every community and collective in the DC metropolitan area. This will be a roundtable discussion with UDC's President Ronald Mason, Jr., Dr. Aparajita De, Associate Professor in the English Program, Chenequa Holland, student and blogger, and your host, Dr. Cherie Ann Turpin, Associate Professor. Join us as we discuss challenges and visions for a regenerated and renewed UDC. #equalfundingudc
Dr. Craig Wynne: The Language of Singlehood
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11/21/20 • 43 min
Dr. Craig Wynne, the newest professor in the English Program at UDC, will be the next guest on my podcast show At the Edge: Think Culture. We will talk about Dr. Wynne’s latest book “How to be a Happy Bachelor” (2020), where he discusses how to think critically about society’s perceptions of marriage, how to overcome your stigma and fear of being alone, and even how to respond to society’s judgments. https://petermcgraw.org/the-happy-bachelor/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happy-singlehood/202009/changing-the-language-singlehood
Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., Ph.D. Chief Academic Officer/Provost UDC
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11/11/20 • 31 min
Dr. Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., was appointed UDC’s Chief Academic Officer/Provost in February 2019. With more than two decades in higher education, Dr. Potter has moved through the professorial ranks as an assistant, associate, and full tenured professor. On the higher education leadership front, he has served as a department chair, associate dean of the faculty, two-time chief diversity officer (CDO), Director/Principal Investigator of a McNair Scholars Program, and Dean of Arts and Sciences for eight years, at two Minority-Serving Institutions.
At the Edge: Dr. Alondra Nelson, Scholar & Author
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07/26/12 • 63 min
In this episode, Dr. Cherie Ann Turpin interviews Dr. Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, whose latest work Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination brings to light the significance of the Black Panther Party's role in challenging mainstream medicine's mistreatment of and discrimination against poor people of African descent in the United States. Dr. Nelson, whose groundbreaking work on theorization of Afrofuturism continues to inspire scholars, will discuss her book, as well as other aspects of her research.
Afrofuturist Visions: Interview with Author Thaddeus Howze
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07/11/12 • 62 min
Dr. Cherie Ann Turpin interviews up and coming speculative/science fiction author Thaddeus Howze about his novel Hayward's Reach, his collection of short fiction on his website Hubcity Blues, and the growth of cyberpunk and futurism among writers of the African Diaspora.
Quantum Flow of the Poet's Voice: Ronald Mason
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06/12/19 • 58 min
Learn what I mean by "quantum flow" in the poet's voice--this episode will have you thinking about the power of language. Ronald Mason the spoken word artist who came to Washington DC as an educator from New Orleans returns for part three to talk about poetry, spoken word, and making culture. We will chat about the creative process and social progress in poetry. Listen in as we both share our writing, process, and ideas in challenging but fascinating times. Beginning audio "State of Mind" by Audiobinger. State of Mind by Audiobinger is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.audiobinger.net/ or contact artist via email. Bring Me Down, Intrepid, 4 the Culture, Shine by K.I.R.K. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. For more permissions: contact artist via http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jay_Kirk/
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How many episodes does At the Edge: Think Culture have?
At the Edge: Think Culture currently has 28 episodes available.
What topics does At the Edge: Think Culture cover?
The podcast is about Poetry, Culture, Higher Education, Humanities, Society & Culture, Podcasts and Gender.
What is the most popular episode on At the Edge: Think Culture?
The episode title 'Arts and Sciences Education Now: Context for responsible revolution' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on At the Edge: Think Culture?
The average episode length on At the Edge: Think Culture is 65 minutes.
How often are episodes of At the Edge: Think Culture released?
Episodes of At the Edge: Think Culture are typically released every 16 days, 2 hours.
When was the first episode of At the Edge: Think Culture?
The first episode of At the Edge: Think Culture was released on Jun 20, 2012.
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